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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
— Salman Rushdie
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
— Theodor W. Adorno
I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside.
— Laurence Equilbey
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
— Kate Millett
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
— Glenn Greenwald
Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.
— Rush Limbaugh
The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.
— Franz Von Papen
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
How could one want an equalitarian and free society to issue from an authoritarian organisation? It is impossible.
— James Guillaume
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
— Stephen Kinzer
The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
— Greg Graffin
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
— Niall Ferguson
There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
— Marlon Brando
Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
— G. Willow Wilson
It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.
— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
— Cory Doctorow
Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology
— Wilhelm Reich
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
— Paul Samuelson
I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.
— Henry Rollins
The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace.
— Anthony M. Platt
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
— Nick Lampson
There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftismbecause the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives — Dennis Prager
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
— Evgeny Morozov
I was slight in frame and lacked the instant authoritarian standing that a Winchester did.
— Jon Bassoff
Nonviolent campaigns against authoritarian regimes are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.
— Anonymous
Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
— Meryl Streep
Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.
— David Foster Wallace
Question authority... Then ignore it!
— Joseph Barjack
China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?
— Yasheng Huang
The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
— Ma Ying-jeou
You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries with the most authoritarian systems.
— Amelie Nothomb
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
— Hillary Clinton
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.
— Joe Chung
We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian.
— Vladimir Putin
As a rule children of tough and imperious parents sticking to authoritarian method of upbringing have a victim complex
— Sunday Adelaja
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
— Ludwig Von Mises
My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.
— Ron Paul
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.
— Art Spiegelman
A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.
— Edward Abbey
It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.
— Evgeny Morozov
